24 Years After Separation, Ex-wife Brooke Shields Admits Feeling Betrayed by Andre Agassi’s Selfish Move – ‘Got Duped in a Big Way..’

ATP legend Andre Agassi is recently making the headlines again after his retirement in 2006. With his latest feat at the Pickleball Slam, Agassi looks like he is focused on making a comeback into the world of sports, even if it is not his usual forte – tennis. However, there is something else that comes up while talking about Agassi right now and that is in regard to his ex-wife, the Hollywood star Brooke Shields. In her recent interviews, promoting her newly released documentary, Shields details some intimate moments of the couple’s brief married life that escaped the public eye.

Shields and Agassi were married from 1997 to 1999 following a passionate relationship. However, owing to several reasons, the marriage did not last very long and now both have moved on with their second spouses. In her recent interview with Marc Maron in his podcast “WTF with Marc Maron”, Shields delves into the reality of being married to one of the greatest tennis players to ever step on the court – the good and bad of it. The discussion also throws light on why the deemed-power couple did not stay in touch after they decided to end their union.

Andre Agassi rejected Shields’ suggestions after asking for them

Talking about her marriage to Agassi, Shields reminisced, “I married an industry, I married a conglomerate…I could disappear in it. I felt safe”.

Soon after they were married, the relationship spiraled, and before long, they filed for divorce. Parting ways mutually, Shields now recalls an incident from years later, when Agassi was in the position she is today. Shields, for one, thought that they would continue to keep in touch, but now she says, “That’s not the kind of person he [Agassi] is. When you’re out, you’re out”. 

His autobiography, “Open”, wherein he took the help of a ghostwriter, details incidents related to their time together. As a very generous offer, Agassi asked Shields to read these excerpts. “He wrote a book, ironically called “Open”. He asked me to read all the parts I was in and I thought that was very generous.”

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Upon reading them, Shields claims, she did not find relevance in most parts- wherein they were not fully reflecting the memory she carried of the time. She requested the ghostwriter to edit the sections as necessary and spent five hours with him- going through her written records of the time, trying to build a narrative that was true to her memory. “Please help fix the things I don’t remember,” Shields recalls Agassi telling her before she sat down with the ghostwriter. “There were many [discrepancies], everything was just off,” she remarks.

However, soon after she got a letter from Agassi himself, telling her that they could not implement any of her suggested changes in the book. Later, her team of editors informed Shields that this was by far the “oldest trick in the book”, and Agassi would get leverage on it by telling the press that he ran it through her before publishing, and she approved. Shields, however, strongly voices her disapproval of these narratives in “Open”.

“I got duped in a big way”, she says while trying to laugh this off.

Shields’ experiences with an alcoholic, albeit not an abusive parent, transformed her experiences greatly from that of any normal girl her age. In order to step out of her mother’s influence and engagement in her daily life, she turned to Agassi with who she shared a comfortable, happy relationship at the time.

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However, talking about why they’re not in touch anymore, Shields reveals this incident as just one of the reasons for their separation.